Shielhill Glen

I walked the whole length of Shielhill Glen today. Being a SSSI we patrol parts of it regularily, but I rarely get the chance to walk its intire length. The Kip flows through the very steep sided glen, creating dozens of pools and waterfalls. Red Sandstone was quaried from the glen during Victorian times and traces of this industrial past are everywhere if you know what your looking at. There is no path or track, (so no people or litter) but most of the the time you walk on the embankment of what was a narrow gauge railway which took the stone out. Nowadays it is cloaked in woodland and is full of wildlife, mainly midges!